{"id":63126,"date":"2022-01-05T23:41:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T18:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/college-physics-professor-is-shocked-after-receiving-180000-cash-for-scholarships-from-secret-donor\/"},"modified":"2022-01-05T23:43:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T18:13:00","slug":"secret-donor-gives-180000-in-cash-and-scholarships-to-college-physics-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/secret-donor-gives-180000-in-cash-and-scholarships-to-college-physics-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret donor gives $180,000 in cash and scholarships to college physics professor."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Manhattan College professor caught up on his mail, after he had returned to in-person teaching earlier in the semester. He said that he was \u201cshell shocked\u201d when he opened up a cardboard box that contained stacks of $50 and $100 bills totaling\u00a0$180,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never seen this kind of money in real\u00a0life in cash form,” Vinod Menon, the chair of the physics department at City College\u00a0told CNN, \u201cI\u2019ve never seen it except in the movies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Menon said when he found the cardboard box, it was beat-up had and was postmarked Nov. 10, 2020, and had no name on it, instead, he said it was addressed to \u201cthe chair of the physics department at CCNY.\u201d Along with the cash was a note that contained written instructions on how the large sum of money should be spent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was soon discovered that the sender, who was anonymous, was a former student who graduated CCNY and majored in physics and mathematics,\u00a0The New York Times reported.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

They went on to share that they went to CCNY after attending Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, and later earned a master\u2019s degree, and a Ph.D., as part of a \u201clong, productive, immensely rewarding to me, scientific career.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The sender requested that the money be used towards any \u201cdeserving junior or senior physics major in the Department who is also doubling mathematics major- and in need of financial support to continue their studies,\u201d the news outlet reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was later learned that the package\u2019s return address was\u00a0in Pensacola, Florida, but the name on the package did not show a record that the person was a graduate of the school. The return address didn\u2019t solve the mystery either, Menon told CNN.<\/a><\/p>\n

Menon said to the Times, “He \u201cdidn\u2019t know if the college accepted cash, so I didn\u2019t know if they\u2019d keep it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before he could accept the donor\u2019s request, Menon said he had to clear it with campus officials to ensure that there was no sort of criminal activity involved. The school, City University of New York (CUNY), NYPD, FBI, Department of Treasury and US Postal Service cleared it.<\/p>\n

CUNY\u2019s Board of Trustees members were elated and voted on Dec. 13 to accept the gift. William C. Thompson was the Chairman of the Board. \u201cthis is absolutely astonishing, $180,000 in a cash box,\u201dThe Times reported that he had introduced the vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Menon explained that tuition at CCNY costs about $7,500 per year. \u201cproud he was to be part of an institution which made a difference in that person\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the generous\u00a0gift will be used to fund two full scholarships every year for the next 10 years and may become available as soon as the fall semester of 2022.<\/p>\n

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Manhattan College professor caught up on his mail, after he had returned to in-person teaching earlier in the semester. He said that he was \u201cshell shocked\u201d when he opened up a cardboard box that contained stacks of $50 and $100 bills totaling\u00a0$180,000. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen this kind of money in real\u00a0life in cash form,” Vinod […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":63127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/College-Physics-Professor-Is-Shocked-After-Receiving-180000-Cash-for.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}